Monday, August 31, 2015

How Has Christ Changed Your Life

Dear family!

I love y'all and hearing such good
things every week. Our week here in Gooding was pretty sweet. Tuesday we had
such a neat experience with Ben and Mayda! We started off with the Mormon
Message "Waiting on the Road to Damascus" By Elder Dieter F.
Uchtdorf, and we watched that on a projector on the wall outside haha. It set
the tone and was great. We moved the lesson inside due to mosquitos and the
Spirit was so strong. It led the conversation and the questions and Ben, the
husband who is a member, did such a good job answering Mayda's questions and
the Spirit spoke through him so well.

Funeral for little Cash Bingham was on
Wednesday. 600-800 people were there... The church was filled all the way back
to the stage. The Spirit was so strong at the funeral. Bishop Jensen (Cash's
grandpa) spoke and so did the other grandpa. Both of them used the scriptures
and gospel teachings so well in their talks and did such a good job.

In Fairfield we met Stew's neighbor,
Blake, and he is one of the nicest, most genuine guys I have ever met. Brought
out cold waters for us, had great conversation and even offered to take us
fishing the next day, we had to decline because it would be Sunday and we had
so many meetings, but we have his number and we are going to go one of these
Mondays!

We both spoke in church in Fairfield,
our topic was "How has Christ changed your life". The meeting was
great. Spirit was there. Elder Edmonds talked for 5 minutes (he thought his
would be longer haha) so I had 30 minutes to go when I got up, but only managed
to use a little over 25. Luckily the song and prayer took the other 5 :)

So many other wonderful things happened
this week, and too many to put into one email! I am so grateful for the
experiences I have and the opportunity to meet and touch so many people's
lives.

I want y'all to know how
much I love our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I love him more than anything. I
know He lives. I know He guides us today through a prophet of God. I know that
His love is real. He suffered and bled so much for us. We are forever indebted
to Him because of that. Nothing we do can repay it, but we can show our love
and appreciation through obeying his one request: Follow Thou Me. That is the
only way I can show my love to the Lord, that is why I am on my mission right
now, to share this great message with God's children because I love the Lord
and I know what He has done for me and continues to do. To share with the world
that Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ live and love us and because of that
they have restored to the earth so many precious truths that we NEED in our
lives. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.